Italy Closed To Foreign Visitors Till Year’s End? UPDATED With Official Reaction
Italy's borders will stay closed to foreign visitors until the end of the year. That's from Dario Franceschini, the country's minister of culture and tourism, in an interview with La Repubblica. UPDATE: So, now Italian government officials emphatically DENY that the country would be closed to foreign visitors till the end of 2020. Good to know! However, since no other timeframe for re-opening of the country to external tourism was provided, not even tentatively, we won't withdraw the original story until we hear something more concrete. With tourism providing some 14% of the Italian GDP and hundreds of thousands of people in the world with planned trips to Italy, it wouldn't be out of place to hear more specifics. There is still a lot of time to go to the…